Ciklum Odessa Speakers' Corners: 5 Dimensions of developing BIG REAL-WORLD CLOUD products

It is said that Wednesday is a small Friday. And what could be better than “little Friday” in Odessa, in the company of professionals and like-minded people who share their rich experience and knowledge? Ciklum's Odessa office has prepared an unusual series of events in the Speakers' Corner format on Wednesdays , which is united by a common theme "5 Dimensions of developing BIG REAL-WORLD CLOUD products" .

4 wednesday october and 1 wednesday november, 5 topics, 5 pros in their field will cover topics on dev, devOps, ops, qa, alm

Attendance of all events is free by prior registration.
Below is the calendar of events, the names of the speakers and the list of topics that will be presented to the public with a link to the registration for each event.

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Dimension # 1: Monitoring Cloud Applications with Application Insights
Description: Application Monitoring is one of the most important components in DevOps. We will consider the industry’s requirements for monitoring modern applications, as well as the possibilities of solving them using Application Insights.
Speaker: Anton Vidischev, Program Manager at Edgar Online, Microsoft MVP, MCSD
Date: Wednesday, October 8
Time: 19.00 - 21.00
Registration link: goo.gl/x1p5os

Dimension No. 2: Declarative management of virtual machines in Microsoft Azure using Powershell Desired State Configuration
Description: After listening to this report, you will learn about the modern way of declarative management of a Windows Server using the PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) technology and learn how DSC can be used in conjunction with virtual machines in Microsoft Azure.
Speaker: Oleg Cherny, Operations Lead at Edgar Online, Microsoft MVP, MCT, MCSE
Date: Wednesday, October 15
Time: 19.00 - 21.00
Registration link: goo.gl/xwB62p

Dimension №3: Working with data in the cloud - what, why and for what?
Description: As part of the report, let's talk about various cloud storage solutions.
On practical examples in the context of MS Azure and not only - consider what is better to use and how to work with it, discuss possible problems and how to solve them.
Speaker: Evgeny Pavliy, RRD Edgar Online Dev & Team Lead, MCTS, MCSD.
Date: Wednesday, October 22
Time: 19.00 - 21.00
Registration link: goo.gl/hETR61

Dimension №4: Effective test design techniques
Date: Wednesday, October 29
Time: 19.00 - 21.00
Description: The report is dedicated to test design techniques that are designed to help QA engineer correctly and most effectively develop test cases. Based on ISTQB Advanced Level.
Speaker: Stepan Maksimchuk, Manual QC Analyst, Edgar-Online,
ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level
Registration link: goo.gl/WhbkPb

Dimension # 5: Agile Team: Team Foundation Server as the basis for continuous integration during product development and release
Description: The report will consider the use of TFS as an assembly server on the example of a typical Edgar Online project.
It is planned to highlight the following questions:
1. The basic model of the branching source code in the development and release of the product.
2. Farm assembly servers.
3. The format of the Agile team. Communication between developers, SDET and QC during the iteration process.
4. General description of typical assembly processes and standard assembly templates.
5. Configure load balancing with assembly definition tags.
6. Use Nuget to minimize the load on TFS.
7. Questions and answers.
Speaker: Alexey Antonov, SDPG Lead, Scrum Master, Configuration Manager
Date: Wednesday, November 5th
Time: 19.00 - 21.00
Registration link: goo.gl/OKoOQW


All events will be held in the office of Ciklum at the address: ul. Lech Kaczynski, 7th. 6th floor BC Rialto